The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was made of six republics after World War II: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia.
Throughout the 1990s, as Yugoslavia broke apart, its territories—including Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Slovenia, North Macedonia and Kosovo—were battlegrounds for the most serious conflict and abuses in Europe since World War II while seeking independence from Yugoslavia. The abuses included widespread attacks against civilians, population expulsions, systematic rape, and the use of concentration camps. Between 1991 and 2000, more than 140,000 people were killed, and almost four million others were displaced. Accountability for these mass atrocities continues to be sought, through international, national and regional mechanisms. UN Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), an ad hoc tribunal mandated to prosecute war crimes committed in the region since 1991. The tribunal has indicted 161 persons and has finished proceedings against over 100 defendants.
6 former member states (and Kosovo, which seceded from Serbia) are focusing on their national history within Yugoslavia.Some parts of curriculum distort the events of the war in national preference, glorify or exaggerate the merits and actions of war actions. On several occasions, there were unsuccessful diplomatic attempts to create a common curriculum that approaches and presents the same facts and joint history curriculum. The war ended in 1995, with tensions until 1999. Slovenia is a member of EU since 2004, Croatia since 2013, while North Macedonia, Montenegro , Serbia and and Bosnia and Herzegovina are candidacy countries.
More: UN ICTY https://www.icty.org/en/about/what-former-yugoslavia/conflicts